On August 27, 2024, CJPME informed former federal candidate and online writer Andy Lee that her claims about CJPME’s Media Accountability Project were false. Writing on Twitter, Andy Lee, with a following of about 150,000 people, was propagating the claim that CJPME’s President, Thomas Woodley, was hiding his affiliations with CJPME to mislead people about our work. However, the claim was based on a misinterpretation of MAP’s website and how it functions. After informing her that her assertions were demonstrably false, Andy Lee deleted the post from the internet after CJPME agreed to update Woodley’s letter to clarify he is the President of CJPME.
The timing of the deletion was critical, as her false claim was about a letter to the editor of Toronto Star from July 2023, because it was circulating alongside a campaign of attacks against CJPME led by columnists at Toronto Sun. The Toronto Sun’s journalists are reacting to a slew of letters from CJPME that prove numerous lies.
We appreciate and applaud Andy Lee’s decision to delete her claims once realizing they were false.